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Locovore Banking Dept. In this time of political stridency, where everything is either red or blue, Boston City Councilors have found a potential purple issue that everyone can stand behind, be they radical lefties or Fox News worshippers. By CHRIS FARAONE | June 14, 2010

Fiddler on the Rise Dept. As Daniel Bernard Roumain was growing up in Margate, a small city in southeast Florida with a large Haitian population, he felt playing the violin was "a calling." By MATT TEMPESTA | March 17, 2010

The Palin question asked and answered; plus, rescuing Lawrence If Sarah Palin were to smoke a joint while piloting a flying saucer to Cuba, evidence suggests that more than one third of America would approve. By EDITORIAL | February 10, 2010

Videos at Gallery Z, animation at AS220 In May 1978, Providence police raided the exhibition “Private Parts” at the Electron Movers loft on North Main Street to enforce a then-new state obscenity law. By GREG COOK | November 17, 2009

The Globe ratchets up the intensity in Boston's mayoral race. Plus, the Times Co. gets some love from the Globe newsroom and BU books blowhard Bill O'Reilly. Two years ago, when I wrote a column griping about the Boston media's apathy-inducing disinterest in city politics, Boston Globe metro editor Brian McGrory told me his paper had given the lackluster 2007 elections as much coverage as they deserved, but hinted that things would be different in 2009. By ADAM REILLY | September 16, 2009

Arista (2009) It's tempting to wonder whether super-producer Clive Davis, in another of his music-biz machinations, arranged for Whitney Houston to whiff last week on Good Morning America , which is reported to have altered Houston's vocals for broadcast after she sounded hoarse during her Central Park mini-concert. By MIKAEL WOOD | September 09, 2009

With layoffs, plummeting revenue, and dwindling viewership, TV news departments are getting desperate. There has been plenty of hand-wringing, in these parts, over the decline of the local broadsheet. The Providence Journal is the paper of record, after all, the agenda setter. And the agenda is decidedly thinner these days. By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 24, 2009

Rhode Island has seen its share of media strife in recent years. The travails of the Providence Journal are the stuff of coffee house and talk radio chatter. And the troubles afflicting the local newscast fill the pages of this week's Phoenix . By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | June 24, 2009

Not at all like the smooth-talking meteorologists on the air in Boston, Kaprielian looks more like an eighth-grade science teacher as he springs to life. It's the coldest day of the winter so far and Al Kaprielian is excited. By MIKE MILIARD | February 06, 2009

Shepard Fairey at the ICA and a preview of February's First Friday "Young people, and artists especially, respond to authenticity. And whether he's just very good at seeming authentic or whether he's really authentic, I think he has a lot of us convinced." By EVAN J. GARZA | January 14, 2009

As the candidates prep for the final debate, it’s a fitting time to ask: why do some journalistic conflicts of interest become scandals, while others get almost no attention at all? As the presidential candidates prep for the final debate of 2008 — which will take place on October 15 in Hempstead, New York, with CBS’s Bob Schieffer moderating — it’s a fitting time to ask: why do some journalistic conflicts of interest become semi-scandals, while others get almost no attention at all? By ADAM REILLY | October 22, 2008

Politics + media When Jim Hummel decided to depart last week because of the approach being pursued by new management, it seemed to encapsulate the take-this-paycheck-and-shove-it fantasy of many people. By IAN DONNIS | August 06, 2008

Hidden influence can be a bigger concern than aggressive reporters Bill Rappleye, of WJAR-TV, was pursuing the adversarial relationship between reporters and elected officials when he asked Governor Carcieri to explain why he isn’t violating the state’s anti-nepotism law. By IAN DONNIS | June 18, 2008

Letters to the Portland editor: February 29, 2008 Maine Public Relations Council members who attended a recent professional development session were stymied by a story you published this month. By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 27, 2008

Is there one political story the press shouldn’t report? How can the media cover a subject that nearly everyone’s thinking about, but is almost too abhorrent to discuss? By ADAM REILLY | February 15, 2008

Why the Writers Guild strike could affect the presidential race It’s easy to be flip about the deep implications of the Writers Guild of America strike, which is now stretching into its fourth week. By ADAM REILLY | November 28, 2007